Rap Quotes
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By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.
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The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.
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For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.
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Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.
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It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start,
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You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
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The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.
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I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.
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I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.
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I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way to move to something.
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We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
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Your mom's in our business...she's in our business...
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I started singing to this one John Legend record; it was called 'Each Day Gets Better,' or something like that. I started to realize, 'Wow, I really sound like this dude. If I keep doing this, maybe I can sound dope like John Legend and still rap.'
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I got the wild style, always been a foul child, My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.
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The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.
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I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.
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Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.
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I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.
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By now, you should know what you're getting with Pusha T. I've been in this game since 2002, and my name says it all. You know I'm only moved by a certain style of rap. Not that many other styles move me. You have to really be a rapper's rapper for me to like it.
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I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.
